ACG Scholars: Past Junior Faculty Awardees

Carlo Di Lorenzo, MD Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine; Robert F. and Edgar T. Wolfe Foundation, Endowed Chair in Pediatric Gastroenterology; Chief, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

G. Richard Locke, III, MD, FACG In Memoriam (1961–2019) Former Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester

Sapna Syngal, MD, MPH, FACG Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Senior Physician, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Director of Research, Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention; Director, Gastrointestinal Cancer Genetics and Prevention Clinics; Director, Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Zobair M. Younossi, MD, MPH, FACG Executive Vice President for Research, Inova Health System; Chairman, Department of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University; Professor of Biomedical Sciences, George Mason University; Co-Director, Center for the Study of Genomics in Liver Disease; President, Inova Medicine Service Line

1999

1999

2000

2000

Naga P. Chalasani, MD, FACG David W. Crabb Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Associate Dean for Clinical Research; Adjunct Professor of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Indiana University School of Medicine

Nicholas J. Shaheen, MD, MPH, FACG Bozymski-Heizer Distinguished Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine at Chapel Hill

2000

2002

Yvonne Romero, MD, FACG Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester

2002

John M. Inadomi, MD, FACG Cyrus E. Rubin Endowed Chair in Medicine; Head, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Washington

2003

Chinyu Su, MD Senior Director, Global Medicines Development, Pfizer Inc.

Deborah A. Fisher, MD, MHS Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University; Associate Director of GI Research, Duke Clinical Research Institute

Kirti Shetty, MD Professor of Medicine, Director of Hepatology and Medical Director of Liver Transplantation, University of Maryland Medical Center

Bo Shen, MD, FACG Director, IBD Center at Columbia University; Vice Chair for Innovation in Medicine and Surgery and Professor of Medicine

Yuri A. Saito-Loftus, MD, MPH, FACG Member, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Clinical Enteric Neuroscience Translational and Epidemiological Research (C.E.N.T.E.R.) Program, Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Rochester

2004

Yehuda Ringel, MD, FACG Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Meir Medical Center, Sharon, Israel

2005

George N. Ioannou, MD, MS Professor of Gastroenterology, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Washington; Director, Hepatology, Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System Thomas A. Ullman, MD, FACG Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

2006

Elena M. Stoffel, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2007

Shahnaz Sultan, MD, MHSc, FACG Associate Professor of Medicine; Program Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program, University of Minnesota; Core Investigator, Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System

2007

Albena D. Halpert, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine Claudia O. Zein, MD, MSc Cleveland Clinic Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition (Past Appointment)

2008

Brian W. Behm, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Marcelo F. Vela, MD, MSCR, FACG Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale

Jasmohan S. Bajaj, MD, MSc, FACG Professor of Medicine, McGuire VA Medical Center and Virginia

2006

Commonwealth University

2008

Alphonso Brown, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, FACG Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology; Director, CGIBD Biostatistics and Clinical Research Core; Director, Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Curtis K. Argo, MD, MS Associate Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Virginia Health System

2010

2010

Ajay Bansal, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center

2010

Prasad G. Iyer, MD, MS, FACG Professor of Medicine; Consultant, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; CoDirector, Advanced Esophageal Fellowship; Director, Post-Doctoral Programs, Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Mayo Clinic Rochester

Bechien U. Wu, MD, MPH Director, Pancreatic Disorders; GI Fellowship Program Director, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles Medical Center

2010

2011

Katherine S. Garman, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine

David G. Koch, MD, MSCR Associate Professor, Medical University of South Carolina

Alberto Rubio-Tapia, MD Director, Celiac Disease Program; Staff Gastroenterologist, Digestive Disease & Surgery Institute; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic

Harminder Singh, MD, MPH, FACG Associate Professor, University of Manitoba Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

Eric I. Benchimol, MD, PhD Director and Senior Scientist, Health Information Technology Program, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa

2011

2011

2011

2011

2012

Jason K. Hou, MD, MS, FACG Associate Professor of Medicine, GI & Hepatology Fellowship Program; Director of Research, IBD, Baylor College of Medicine Director

Ponni V. Perumalswami, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Amit Singal, MD, MS Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of the Liver Tumor Program and Clinical Chief of Hepatology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Tyler Stevens, MD, MS, FACG Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University; Staff Physician, Director of the Pancreas Clinic, Cleveland Clinic

Seth D. Crockett, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tamas A. Gonda, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine,

New York-Presbyterian/Columbia

University Medical Center Jennifer C. Lai, MD, MBA Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine Naim Alkhouri, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio; Director, Metabolic Center, Texas Liver Institute Walter G. Park, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Medicine; Medical Director, Pancreas Clinic, Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Stanford University Medical Center

2014

Linda C. Cummings, MD, MS Assistant Professor of Medicine, University Hospitals, Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University Manish K. Gala, MD Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital Ashwani K. Singal, MD, MS, FACG Associate Professor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of South Dakota; Transplant Hepatologist and Chief, Clinical Research Affairs; Avera University Hospital, Transplant Institute, and Institute of Human Genetics Research Christopher V. Almario, MD, MSHPM Assistant Professor, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

2015

Jennifer C. Price, MD, PhD Associate Professor, University of

2014

California San Francisco

2016

Jessica R. Allegretti, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Harvard

2014

2015

Medical School

2016

2017

2017

Siddharth Singh, MD, MS Assistant Professor, University of California San Diego

Alina M. Allen, MD Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic Rochester

Renumathy Dhanasekaran, MD Instructor, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University School of Medicine

N. Jewel Samadder, MD, MSc Cynthia A. Moylan, MD, MHS Senior Associate Consultant; Medical Associate Professor, Duke University ACG SCHOLARS Lead, High Risk Cancer Clinics; Associate Professor of Medicine; Senior Associate Consultant, Department of Clinical Genomics, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale School of Medicine 2015 2017 Reena Khanna, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Clinician Researcher, Program for Experimental Medicine, University of Western Ontario 2019–2020 Annual Report of Programs & Activities | 17